Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Copenhagen Chemicals, Copenhagen Oil & Gas and Copenhagen Health Care sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 1.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Novozymes A/S B (CSE:NSISb), which rose 1.16% or 4.70 points to trade at 410.00 at the close. GN Store Nord (CSE:GN) added 0.65% or 0.90 points to end at 131.10 and Pandora A/S (CSE:PNDORA) was up 0.56% or 6.00 points to 1,086.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CSE:MAERSKb), which fell 3.58% or 440.00 points to trade at 11,850.00 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CSE:MAERSKa) declined 3.29% or 390.00 points to end at 11,460.00 and Novo Nordisk A/S Class B (CSE:NOVOb) down 2.21% or 16.30 points to 721.80.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones by 80 to 48 and 25 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.51% or 1.04 to $69.79 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.40% or 1.02 to hit $73.83 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.64% or 17.10 to trade at $2,668.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.54% to 7.11, while EUR/DKK unchanged 0.01% to 7.46.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 106.93.